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“The provocations by Russia need to be met with American strength. … The United States of America should be prepared to use military force, to strike military targets of Bashar Assad regime.”

John McCain went further:

“The U.S. … must issue an ultimatum to Mr. Assad — stop flying or lose your aircraft … If Russia continues its indiscriminate bombing, we should make clear that we will take steps to hold its aircraft at greater risk.”

Yet one gets the impression this is bluster and bluff.

Pence has walked his warnings back. And there are few echoes of McCain’s hawkishness. Even Hillary Clinton’s call for a “no-fly zone” has been muted.

The American people have no stomach for a new war in Syria.

Nor does it make sense to expand our enemies list in that bleeding and broken country — from ISIS and the al-Qaida-linked al-Nusra Front — to Syria’s armed forces, Russia, Iran and Hezbollah.

These last three have been battling to save Assad’s regime, because they see vital interests imperiled should it fall.

We have not plunged into Syria, because we have no vital interest at risk in Syria. We have lived with the Assads since Richard Nixon went to Damascus.

President Obama, who has four months left in office, is not going to intervene. And Congress, which has the sole power to declare war, has never authorized a war on Syria.

Obama would be committing an impeachable act if he started shooting down Russian or Syrian planes over Syrian territory. He might also be putting us on the escalator to World War III.

For Russia has moved its S-400 anti-aircraft system into Syria to its air base near Latakia, and its S-300 system to its naval base at Tartus.

As the rebels have no air force, that message is for us.

Russia is also moving its aircraft carrier, Admiral Kuznetsov, into the Med. Vladimir Putin is doubling down in Syria.

Last weekend, the Russian Foreign Ministry warned that U.S. attacks in Syria “will lead to terrible tectonic consequences not only on the territory of this country but also in the region on the whole.”

Translation: Attack Syria’s air force, and the war you Americans start could encompass the entire Middle East.

Last week, too, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Marine Gen. Joseph Dunford, warned that creating a “no-fly zone” in Syria could mean war — with Russia. Dunford’s crisp retort to Sen. Roger Wicker:

“Right now, senator, for us to control all of the airspace in Syria it would require us to go to war, against Syria and Russia. That’s a pretty fundamental decision that certainly I’m not going to make.”

And neither, thankfully, will Barack Obama.

So, where are we, and how did we get here?

Five years ago, Obama declared that Assad must step down. Ignoring him, Assad went all out to crush the rebels, both those we backed and the Islamist terrorists.

Obama then drew a “red line,” declaring that Assad’s use of chemical weapons would lead to U.S. strikes. But when Obama readied military action in 2013, Americans rose up and roared, “No!”

Reading the country right, Congress refused to authorize U.S. military action. Egg all over his face, Obama again backed down.

When Assad began losing the war, Putin stepped in to save his lone Arab ally, and swiftly reversed Assad’s fortunes.

Now, with 10,000 troops — Syrian, Iraqi Shiite militia, Hezbollah, Iranian Revolutionary Guard and Afghan mercenaries — poised to attack Aleppo, backed by Russian air power, Assad may be on the cusp of victory in the bloodiest and most decisive battle of the war.

Assad and his allies intend to end this war — by winning it.

For the U.S. to reverse his gains now, and effect his removal, would require the introduction of massive U.S. air power and U.S. troops, and congressional authorization for war in Syria.

The time has come to recognize and accept reality.

While the U.S. and its Turkish, Kurdish and Sunni allies, working with the Assad coalition of Russia, Hezbollah and the Iranians, can crush ISIS and al-Qaida in Syria, we cannot defeat the Assad coalition — not without risking a world war.

And Congress would never authorize such a war, nor would the American people sustain it.

As of today, there is no possibility that the rebels we back could defeat ISIS and the al-Nusra Front, let alone bring down Bashar Assad and run the Russians, Hezbollah, Iran and the Iraqi Shiite militias out of Syria.

Time to stop the killing, stop the carnage, stop the war and get the best terms for peace we can get. For continuing this war, when the prospects of victory are nil, raises its own question of morality.

Here and right now is where the Russian Navy along with the Chinese Navy and the American Navy avoid the third world war by surrounding Europe and demanding the death of the Rothschild family along with the Italian Black Nobility(Guelph), Papist families. Put to death all of the men & jail their women for a life time behind bars.

These are the Oligarchy plotters and instigators of WAR and currency debasement going back to nine centuries out of Venice and five centuries out of London, and one century out of New York City. Hang ‘em high.

The only problem is NATO is the Rothschild’s military toy and all the leaders of the West are traitors for
just a little bit of the Zionist banker’s money. They think money will help them cheat death but in reality will bring it.

Hurricane Matthew doesn’t exist? The fuck are you shrooming? I was just inside of it. Sure it slowed down after Heidi was destroyed so our area only had house damage instead of annihilation, but don’t go claiming horseshit about what people are going through.

You can make all the claims you want about what can’t be seen, but you sure as hell can’t tell me that one of our windows didn’t have a chunk of someones roof thrown at the interlocking shutters at 80~mph. Nearly broke the window behind armored support. Totally would have if it wasn’t so wide that it hit flat against the house rather than on the window only.

Oh BS. Matthew was a Tropical Storm. It flooded areas that are developed where they shouldn’t be, lowlands that are flooding all too often. I was in Wilmington, been through many Hurricanes going back to the 70s and this was a big squall but no Hurricane. It was BS from the beginning and the barometric pressure should have been a clue. You won’t find a Category Three as advertised with a 29.55 pressure.

…I just told you the above…yes, it was a Hurricane. Yes, some car ports were torn apart. A few cases in my community had rooves taken off. One street back from me even lost the front of the building. Fuck whatever data and conspiracies you have about the storm- there’s a conspiracy for EVERYTHING IMAGINEABLE- this was a category 3 Hurricane.

You can be paranoid all you want about things, and hell you can denounce my experiences as just some evil agent trying to mislead you, but you would simply be insane in this scenario. Not everything is bad. Sure they most certainly plan to use the event to their advantage like everything else, but you can’t say it WASN’T a hurricane. Well I guess you can and did, but your wrong haha.

eXChroma,
All I can say is if Matthew scared you and you believe it was a Cat Three, you better evacuate to another state next time because even a Cat Two for real is going to make you poop your pants.

In a real Cat Three, you could swear that your roof is going to fly off any minute because you can hear the the joists and rafter boards creaking and snapping constantly. The whole house will be shaking for hours without letup. Matthew had brief gusts but nothing sustained.
Even a 25mph gusts will toss around unsecured items and damage poorly built structures. Wilmington has had a wet soggy summer. The ground was saturated and soft. Even a Cat Two would have had thousands more downed trees than what we had.

so let me get this? you buy a 4 pound pail of slugs eat them with in 6 minutes squat down as low as you can then rub your head then your belly and come up with these so say i statements from the digestive juices of your own guts?

is that where you get your info james? cuz if your wrong in the old test you would be killed as a false profit!

If Hillary is elected when she is asked do you sware to up hold the US Constitution so help you God? With her hand on the bible her answer will be, I do and that will be a lie. If Donald is elected when he is asked with his hand on the bible, do you sware to up hold the US Constitution so help you god? His answer will be, I do and that my friends will be the truth! Vote wisely because you freedom is at stake!